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OBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - FIRST get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt. OBs should not be placing women
pushing babie out on their backs/butts in the first place!

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed up to 30%.
Some babies are killed - some are paralyzed - but usually babies "only" have
their necks wrenched.

Chicago birth injury attorney Anthony Mancini has told me that he needs a
"credible" OB/GYN to bring this matter before a jury...

"Todd...I would be very interested in obtaining more information from you
regarding the closed birth canal theory. In order to present this theory to
a
jury, I would need a credible OB/Gyn who subscribes to the theory. The
OB/Gyn
would be the expert witness. I welcome any information that you can
provide."
--Anthony Mancini
Law Offices of Anthony Mancini, Ltd.www.mancinilaw.com

I suggested to Anthony that what he actually needs is a BRAVE "credible"
OB/GYN - an OB/GYN not afraid to render his entire profession susceptible to
criminal
prosecution and massive civil damages.

I indicated further that I strongly suspect OB/GYNs MUST close birth
canals - and remain silent about it - because stopping
would be tantamount to admitting a horrible massive crime that sometimes
kills and paralyzes babies.

BTW, I do mean CLOSED. To a breech baby with a trapped after-coming head -
the birth canal is indeed CLOSED.

Same goes for a baby suffering shoulder dystocia.

So why aren't government-sponsored studies pointing out that MDs and MBs and
CNMwive are closing birth canals?

If [a plaintiff] mother was on her back or butt for her delivery (most women
are)...

Juries should be told that OBs and CNMwives are waiting until the head is
out and the shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter.

Juries should be told that OBs and CNMwives are forcing babies' heads
through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30% then KEEPING birth canals closed when the
shoulders get stuck (see THE KICKER below)...

The Merck Manual method for increasing the diameter of the pelvic
outlet - merely hyperflexing the mother's thighs - is BAD McRoberts
maneuver - and BAD McRoberts maneuver does not roll the woman off her sacrum
and therefore
does NOT increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet!

Here are the simple grisly biomechanics of semisitting (and dorsal)
delivery clearly stated by Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the
British National Health Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI...

NOTE: At one time, WMPI/Jason Gardosi, MD and his British OB pal Malcolm
Griffiths got
me censored from an international obstetric listserv for protesting this
bizarre
obstetric behavior - but fortunately not before two of my articles got
posted...

T]his site will...include information about ways that
women can help their labors progress. If you have information about
research studies...please let us know. We may be able to add this
information to our site."http://www.vbac.com/index.html

I do indeed "have information about research studies"...

OBs are IGNORING research studies - and simple biomechanics - and so
are CNMwives... See below.

That's the spirit! PREVENTION! Why not tell women outright that standard
medical delivery positions close the birth canal up to 30%?

WARNING #3: Sometimes MDs and CNMwives let women "try" "alternative"
delivery positions - then move them back to semisitting or dorsal (close the
birth canal!) for the actual delivery!

To summarize:

1. Women and their uteri should not be made to push with birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%.

2. And when there are problems, OBs themselves should not be pushing on tiny
spines (with oxytocin, Cytotec, PGE2) or pulling (with hands, forceps,
vacuums) - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

If the Maternity Center Association does not offer women this key
information, they can't use it to help themselves.

BE ADVISED: Yale CNMwifery Prof Helen Varney ignored my pleas years ago and
promoted semisitting (closing the birth canal) a various editions of her
book. She also promoted KEEPING the birth canal closed (lithotomy) when
shoulders get stuck!

CNMwifery Prof. Varney is STILL doing this in her 2004 edition, as in,

"The usual positions in a hospital delivery room are lithotomy or dorsal.
Midwives believe that in neither of these positions does the woman have to
be
flat on her back; rather, they encourage a semisitting, or 'back up' and
'legs
down,' modification of these positions." (!)
[Varney H. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. 4th ed.
2004:839]

"Almost three-quarters of the women were restricted to bed, and three out of
four were on their backs while pushing their babies out." (citing: ED
Declercq et al.Oct. 2002, www.maternitywise.org/listeningtomothers)

Peggy O'Mara, editor of Mothering, once *published* the biomechanics of how
women can allow their birth canals to open maximally!

Your Mothering article was titled, "Facts you need to know to say 'No!' to a
cesarean."...

Yet Mothering editor Peggy O'Mara just forgot to tell you that OBs are
knowingly closing birth canals up to 30% - and how easy it is for women to
allow their birth canals to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%...

Also noteworthy: Peggy hasn't yet published a correction to my 1997 letter
which I've asked her to publish...

The correction pertains to the fact that OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed
when shoulders get stuck!

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are we letting OBs and CNMwives force babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?

For PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%, scroll up a
little...

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BEWARE though: Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see the
"Criminal medical CAM" URL above.)

MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.
END Gastaldo's Open Letter to an author of a Mothering magazine
article...

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.